I just saw this video via Snowboarder Magazine - more goodness to help get excited about the upcoming winter. So much creativity in this and more backflips than some full videos!

As summer wears on and I get to daydreaming more and more about winter and another hopefully great snowboard season, it doesn’t help when a brand new trailer for the upcoming Travis Rice / Red Bull / Quicksilver movie The Art of Flight is released. The riding and filming just look jaw dropping. This movie is going to be amazing and I’m really hoping it shows at a theater somewhere in Chicago. However, it looks like we’ll be missing out here – midwest snowboarders get no love sometimes.
As the summer temperatures keep at a steady 80 – 90 degrees here in Chicago, I’m getting anxious for winter and the start of snowboarding season – which is sadly six months away. Aside from actually snowboarding, I’m not alone in being excited about the new videos that will be coming out in the Fall, one of which is Forum’s Vacation. The trailer comes with the requisite goofy music, following up Fuck It’s trailer song (Playing with the Boys, by Kenny Loggins) with Just Like Paradise by David Lee Roth. Plenty of good riding within and it’s bound to be a good followup to Fuck It and Forever.
I cannot wait to see this newest movie from Red Bull including Travis Rice, John Jackson, Mark Landvik, Scotty Lago, Jake Blauvelt, Nicolas Muller, Gigi Ruf, DCP and Pat Moore. The filming looks phenomenal; it’s got to be one of the biggest budget snowboard films made in recent years. Too bad we have to wait until September 2011, but with any luck this will show in theaters. I highly suggest expanding the video above and watching full screen.
Red Bull’s The Art Of Flight – View Here
UNDERCITY by Andrew Wonder on Vimeo
I have been fascinated by underground exploration of urban environments for as long as I knew there was something below us other than dirt and rock. Riding the subway here in Chicago always leaves me wishing I could get off the train inside the tunnels and see where the escape doors go and what the side tunnels lead to. As a kid we used to sneak down into neighborhood sewer pipes and crawl under the streets and hide out in the gutters, always wondering how much further we could go and what else we could discover. Years later I can still remember the thrill, but I doubt it’s anything next to what people experience when exploring a place like the NYC subway system. I’ve read plenty about abandoned tunnels being discovered over the years and people living in the unused and in operation tunnels, and it’s all just pretty fascinating. Undercity, by Andrew Wonder, has been making the blogs over the past couple of weeks, so if you haven’t seen it I highly suggest it. I’d give anything to have some adventures like this.
I’ve not picked this video up yet but plan to at some point. The riding looks good and it seems right on par with the Forum and Absinthe videos I’ve grabbed recently.